Corset



C. H. SCHOPBACH.

CORSET.

APPLICATION FILED NOV-7,1918.

Patented uly 20, 1920.

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CHARLES H. SCHOPBACI-I, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO INTERNATIONAL CORSET COMBANY, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

consn'r.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 20 1920.

Application fi led November 7, 1913. Serial No. 261,579.

drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this spec1ficat1on.- Y

This invention relates to improvements in front lace corsets and more particularly in that type of front lace corsets wherein the lower portion of the fabric is extended below the lower ends of the eyelet and clasp Stays. v

'Heretofore in this type of corsets, it has been desirable to use hose supporters attached to the front of the corset at the lower end of the fabric that supports the end of the eyelet stays, and also to use other hose supportersattached'to the fabric that extends below the ends of the corset stays. Thus a plurality of hose supporters for each side of the corset have beenused, and the convenience of these supporters has been such that corsets with three and four of such supporters on each side of the corset have become so popular as to make it almost imi perative' from the manufacturers standpoint, to use that number of supporters.

In the present emergency, the Government has been obliged to make certain restrictions governing the manufacture of corsets. Among these, the Government has laid down the rule that but two hose supporters be used for each side of the corset.

Naturally, where but two such supporters arev used, they are spaced at some considerabledistance apart, so that the portion of the supporter intended to engage the hose will do so at substantially diametrically opposite partsof the top'of 'thehose', to .thus hold it more properly upon the limb of the wearer.

' The securing of one hosesupporter to the garment at the lower end of the eyelet stays, and of the other hose supporter at a considerable remove therefrom, provides nothing in the intervening space to hold down the lower part of the fabric between the two supporters. Such fabric, in use, becomes folded and wrinkled and very objectionable to the wearer. This part of the fabric must be thin and very flexible, and is not provided with stays to its lower margin in order to afford freedom to the user of the corset when stooping over or in a sitting posture. Hence, while having fiexi bility and freedom, provision must also be made for holding it in its relative position and in its smooth or straightened out arrangement. This has heretofore been accomplished by having a garment supporter attached where needed. Such third supporter I now propose to remove, under Government direction, as stated, heretofore.

The principal object of my invention,

therefore, is to provide a device which will accomplish that part of the function of the garment supporter intended to hold the fabric intervening between the two remaining supporters, in its normal position, free from wrinkles and yet hold it with the requisite degree of freedom and flexibility.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 shows a front lace corset of the usual type,to which my invention has been applied. Y

Fig. 2 is anenlarged,'sect1onal v1ew of a portion of the corset, taken upon the hori- ,zontal plane indicated by the dotted line 22 of Fig. 1.

In said drawing, A indicates the corset as a whole, comprising a right hand body member 1 and a left hand body member 2. Attached to the longitudinal front margin of the body member 2 is an eyelet stay member 3. A similar eyelet stay member 4 is provided, whereby the usual strings or corset lacings may be passed between the two eyelet members 3 and4 in a familiar manner. The margin of the member 1 is provided, also, with a longitudinally arranged stay member 6 and corset clasps are provided, one member 7 being attached to the stay 6 and the other member 8 being attached to the eyelet stay 4, whereby the corset body 2 and the corset body 1 may be hooked together by the wearer in a familiar manner.

. In this type of corset, the stay members 3' and 4 are of such length that their lower ends 9, 9 extend down as far as possible on the body when the corset is upon the wearer and yet provide freedom of movement when the wearer bends over or assumes a sitting posture. The cloth, or fabric, however, in

this type of corsets, as shown, extends considerably below the ends 9, 9, and to the lower margin- 10, 10, of the fabric, I attach the upper end of anelastic hose supporter 11, l1,-one on each side. To the lower ends 9, 9, I also attach the upper end ofa hose supporter, 12, 12. These hose supporters serve to unite the'c'lasp with the-hose and to hold the hose up as well as to hold the corset down.

The portion of the fabric of the body 1 and the body 2, indicated generally below the dotted line 13 and designated by the numeral 1 1, provides a triangularly shaped strip with a substantially horizontal margin 15 and a substantially Vertical margin 16. It is this portion 141 that it is required to be yielding or flexible, and. yet so constructed as not towrinkle and fold. To this end, I provide'a piece of non-elastic fabric 17 which by folding between its ends and uniting the two free ends, forms a loop 18; the free ends 19 being secured by stitches 20 to the margin 16, of the corset fabric. Through this loop 18 I pass the hose'supporter 12. The'lengthof this loop 18 and its width, relatively to the width of. the'hose wrinkle or. crease.

supporter 12, are such that when the corset is in position and the hose supporter 12 fastened to the-hose of the wearer, the front end 21 of the loop 18 will substantially bear along the side margin or edge of the "elastic strip of the hose supporter 12. This loop 18 in practice will thus be found to perform two functions,first: by being held by the location of the hose supporter 12 in a relativelv fixed position, no practical, lateral movement will be possible of that portion of the corset fabric designated at 14; although there will be,by reason'of the loop construction, a small amount of play. This will prevent wrinkling or folding, 'so far as lateral or side-wise movement-is concerned. r I 1 It will also be found that, by reason of the engagement of the end 21 of the loop 18 with the margin of the elastic portion of the hose supporter 12, and of the relative width of the non-elastic fabric comprising the loop 18,'the frictional contact issuch as to substantially holdthe loop .18 invits lowermost'position, thus holding the margin 15 0f the fabric in proper position.

The strain on'the hose supporter will be found such as to hold this loop in substantially taut engagement therewith, although yieldingly so; In other words, it is found in practice that this fabric portion 14:, provided at its lower rinner'margin with the. loop 18, as shown, does not in fact slide or creep up on the -wearer and does not Thus, this'simple' expedient enables me to entirely dispense with the intermediate hose supporter heretofore used, and indicated by the dottedlines 12 the position of such dispensed-with supporter being so indicatedindotted lines on the left-hand side only in Fig. 1.

I claim as my invention: 1. In a front lace corset in which a por- "tion of the fabric extends below the fastening and lacing stays, a hose supporter secured at its upper 'endto-the lower end of a front stay and extending' i'parallel with the free margin of said fabric,-and' means secured tosaid free. margin jcoperating with said supporter and loosely embracing the latter'and preventing lateral wrinkling or folding of the fabric, substantially as and for the purpose specified. 7v

2. In a front lace corset in which a portion of the fabric extends below the fastening and lacing stays, a hose supportersecured at its upper end to the lower end of a front stay and extending parallel with the free margin of" saidfabric, and means secured to said free margincooperating with said supporter, said means comprising a loop of fabric having its free ends secured to the said free margin.with the loop portion freely embracing the supporterv and by frictional contact holding the margin of the fabric in proper position and preventing wrinkling.

3. In a front lace corset, two body portions, a lacing; stay providedqwith eyelets .and secured tothe margin'of one'body portion, a clasp stay 'providedwith va clasp member and secured to the margin of the other body portion, a second lace'stay provided with eyeletsand with a complementary clasp member, lacings to engage the two eyelet stays, the two bodyv portions at either side of said'stays extending belowthe line of the lower ends'of saidstays, a hose supporter secured to and extending below the lower end of thefirst mentioned eyelet stay, a second hose supporter secured to. and extending below, the lower end of the clasp stay and. loop strap members secured to the free margins 'of the body portion of the fabric adjacent to and having the loops in frictional engagement with 'saidthose support ens, and by frictional contact therewith holding the margin of the fabric 'in'proper position and preventing wrinkling, substantially as and for the purposespecified. n In testimonythat I claim 'the foregoing as'my invention I aflix my signature iii the presence of three witnesses, this 5th day of November,'A. D. 1918. CHARLES H. SCHGPBACH. 'Witnessesz' V I Q' S. SAGE," i C. FRI DLUND," A. C. HUFFMAN. 

